Hi everyone, I am working on a Banana Pi with Arch Linux and
i am currently trying to accomplish the following:
After someone mounted the encrypted keyfiles for my external storage systemd shall use ...

I want to use Volume Encryption on my Debian machine. Linux does have such a tool for that. But I want to use my own encryption tool to encrypt a partition. Now, is it somehow possible to specify it ...

I wish to encrypt two external hard drives using dm-crypt/LUKS for whole-disk encryption. I want one hard drive to have an ext4 filesystem for Linux use only, and the other to have an NTFS filesystem, ...

I want to encrypt the content of a directory in a container with an ext4 filesystem using cryptsetup. The size of the container should be as small as possible and as big as necessary, because I only ...

It says it is an optional step, but it is recommended to do this, it improves encryption to pre-fill the partition with random data.
What brings security filled with random data? Is it more difficult ...

I've used archlinux before, and I've decided to have it enccrypted. I use BIOS. I used the latest vesion of archboot. I made an LUKS setup, then made lvm volume group and two ext4 partition in it for ...

I want to have a full system encryption on my laptop. But I have two users, one for home and one for work and want a separate encryption for both. Sure I could do a full disk encryption with dm-crypt ...

My system is fully encrypted with dm-crypt and LVM. I recently moved the encrypted partition from /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda2.
My question is: how can I change the name the encrypted partition is mapped ...

Once I already have a running Linux system installed with live unencrypted data on my HDD. Is there any reasonable way to dm-crypt that entire HDD right in place? (Without backing up then restoring ...

Encryption/decryption is often the main bottleneck when accessing an encrypted volume. Would using a filesystem with a fast transparent compression (such as BTRFS + LZO) help? The idea is that there ...

EDIT: Problem solved, i updated from Debian 6.0.6 to 7.0.0, everything works now!
I have a complex problem at booting. Basically, I have a debian apache box, as a music server in my home network. The ...

I store documents on btrfs partition built upon sparse dm-crypt device located on ext4 main partition on physical harddrive.
When kernel panics (and this happens on daily basis on my ASUS P53E with ...

I needed something like this post and found a post by Mandos developer. I read all literature and also tried to post, but it seems they have negligible activity in their mailinglist. So I am asking ...

I have a T61 with C2D T7300 CPU/4 GByte RAM. I has SL 6.3 on it, and I ticked the encrypt VG during install. If I start a "normal" windows xp on it, its ~slow.. so.. I need a little performance boost ...

I log in to a server via public key authentication and then mount a container (using e.g. LUKS/dm-crypt or truecrypt). At the moment, I have to enter the container password manually. Is there a way to ...

Tonight I decided I wanted to tweak the configuration of my Debian install on my netbook (Ideapad S10-2) to work better with the SSD I put in it.
I have done this before and never had any issues but ...

while installing my Gentoo system I encoutered a strange error.
One of my disk is encrypted, I have done all the installation via ssh, so did I enter the encryption passphrase via ssh.
Now I entered ...

I have a dm-raid1 with a LUKS encrypted partition md0 on it and I would like it to be mounted automatically when I login, using pam_mount.
So far I have configured the pam_mount.conf.xml as follows:
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One of the well-known properties of dm-crypt is that it does not handle write barriers properly and hence it requires turning off on-drive write cache to prevent corruption of filesystems. As far as I ...